caa a22 4500 386338671 CHVBK 20180307111741.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0952675700000920 doi S0952675700000920 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0952675700000920 Hall Tracy Alan University of Washington Lexical Phonology and the distribution of German [ ç ] and [ x ] [Elektronische Daten] [Tracy Alan Hall] This paper examines the distribution of the palatal fricative [ç] and the velar fricative [x] in Modern Standard German. The data are significant with respect to the theory of Lexical Phonology (Kiparsky 1982, 1985; Halle & Mohanan 1985; Mohanan 1986) because the rule of Fricative Assimilation (FA) which spreads the feature of backness from a vowel onto an immediately following tautomorphemic [ —voice, + high] fricative is a counterexample to Kiparsky's (1985) Structure Preservation hypothesis, according to which non-distinctive features must be introduced postlexically. It is also noteworthy that the present analysis produces both [x] and [ç] from a [— voice, + high] fricative which is unspecified for backness, contrary to the general tendency among previous researchers who have taken either /ç/ or /x/ to be the basic segment. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Phonology Cambridge University Press 6/1(1989-05), 1-17 0952-6757 6:1<1 1989 6 PHO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675700000920 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675700000920 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hall Tracy Alan University of Washington NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Phonology Cambridge University Press 6/1(1989-05), 1-17 0952-6757 6:1<1 1989 6 PHO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge